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All Israelis think Arabs steal cars.
It's problematic being an Arab who writes in Hebrew.
Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.
I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.
People who go far don't sleep an average of 14 hours a day.
As I see it, religion shouldn't interfere in a relationship.
My children don't even know who Fairuz is - a horrifying thought.
I wanted to bring likable Arabs into the average Israeli living room.
I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things.
Sometimes I can write very angry columns, but I know that it doesn't work.
It's the friends that make you survive this flat place called the Midwest.
Somehow, the rare trips to Tel Aviv give me the feeling that I have a career.
To be critical of television is almost like questioning the fact of God's existence.
Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.
After five years of marriage, she is still the most beautiful and attractive woman in the world.
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
We were, as Arabs in Israel, educated not to leave our villages, in order to protect our identity.
'Arab Labor' was light, snappy. We got emotional over things, but from a safe place, from the terrace.
It always seems to me that my life would look completely different if I didn't have to take care of the rent.
I don't like identity. We accept identities in Israel. We make them holy. But what does identity really mean?
Everything in London is quite good, apart from the weather: it's cold and rainy there, and the winter is long.
I conduct all my nighttime activities under the assumption that my wife is awake, that she never falls asleep.
Sometimes it seems as though all parents are certain that their children are victims of abuse by other children.
Many Israelis are educating their kids in a very nationalist, powerful identity, since kindergarten - and the Arabs as well.
They're completely American. When I served my son falafel in a pita the other day, he said, 'Daddy, this taco is very good.'
I wish I could be proud of being an Israeli citizen, but how can I do that when I'm not really recognized as a full citizen?
Sometimes it seems that what really worries the Israeli governments, even more than the Muslim Brotherhood, is the real Egypt.
Back in Israel, I would spend much effort and plenty of money on presents when I went abroad, even if it was only for two days.
Whom do you speak to about introducing a leap year? Is it heresy to request such a thing? Why do the Jews have one and we don't?
Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.
When Jewish youths walk down the street and demand the death of Arabs simply because they're Arabs, then I've lost my own small battle.
I'm not representing anyone - not Israelis, not Palestinians - I'm just a storyteller trying to raise more questions than give answers.
Somehow, since I became a family, every minute in which I am alone and not listening to two kids screaming in stereo feels like a vacation.
When was the last time an Arab MK who appeared on television wasn't there in the role of the accused who is attacked by a skeptical broadcaster?
Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie.
The Palestinians have tried everything, and by God, it's Israel's governments that taught us that the only thing the Israelis appreciate is force.
Maybe I would go back to West Jerusalem without too much bother if I could lie to my kids and tell them they are equal citizens in a democratic state.
I began to write, believing that all I had to do to change things would be to write the other side, to tell the stories that I heard from my grandmother.
I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.
A trip to Tel Aviv is a ritual. I always wear the same clothes to Tel Aviv: black pants and a blue-checked shirt that I bought especially from Ralph Lauren.
I hate it when I have to abandon my children. I politely turn down most of the invitations I get from abroad and try to fly only when it's absolutely necessary.
I wanted the Israeli mainstream audience to meet different kinds of Arabs - not just terrorists or politicians - and to listen to their language and their stories.
I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.
Sometimes I think that if we have to go back, then it certainly won't be to Jerusalem. Not to the Jerusalem beset with racism that we left at the height of the last Gaza war.
Sometimes I wonder if there is any hope left for an Israeli-Palestinian discourse that is built on equality and liberty rather than a fruitless discourse of master and servant.
I don't really wake up in the morning and say, 'Ohmigod, I'm a Palestinian in a Jewish state.' I wake up in the morning and say, 'Ohmigod, I have to make sandwiches for my kids.'
I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story.
Well, you can't say you are lucky to live in Champaign, but I was lucky to be at the University of Illinois. It's a very international cosmopolitan community. That's very helpful.
Is it too late to institute a leap year and mandate that the holidays fall on regular, convenient dates - so that Id al-Fitr will come, say, in the spring and Id al-Adha in early summer?